OFFSTAGE: Kelly Clarkson Finds Love After Skinny Jeans

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Wait. We’re comparing boyfriends to jeans now? Is that a thing? It must be — because that
is exactly how Kelly Clarkson explains why true love had been eluding
her until now. “I was dating skinny jeans, and I needed Wranglers,” she
told People magazine. So her Wranglers must be Brandon Blackstock, stepson of Reba
McEntire. He and Clarkson are engaged to be married this fall. Clarkson said that until he came along, she’d never been
loved properly by a man. And in her my-life-is-an-open-book way, she also described vividly what she was wearing when Blackstock
proposed: Uggs, a sweatshirt and no bra. At least she wasn’t wearing the aforementioned skinny jeans.